Re: NS0-507

I haven't taken the NCIE SAN test (planning on it at Insight this year if I can) but I passed the NS0-511 last Fall. I'm taking the same approach for studying for the NCIE SAN that I did for the data protection test:

Review the content on the link Greg Hyman sent - take whatever free/CBT training you can

Take the practice exam and take notes on each of the technology concepts discussed in the questions. Then deep-dive into those concepts using the ONTAP 9 documentation center, reviewing KBs, etc.

Focus on areas I don't have direct experience with. In the NS0-511, I had no background on Metrocluster (my organization just doesn't use it) so I had to really get up to speed there. With the NS0-507 I'm going to have to study FC on NetApp (we only do NFS and iSCSI) - I've done FC with HP arrays in the past, but a lot of that material will be new to me.

Look at the ILT classes available - I've not taken many, but I will create a study guide out of the course outline (again, focusing on areas I'm weak on).

In the end, the tests have proven to be pretty "solid" insofar as not being tricky or having dumb/poisoned questions. The teams working on the test materials have done a great job. My only gripe with the NS0-511 was that it had a ton of questions on SnapProtect which I really didn't expect. I failed on my first take so I had to cram on that information - knowing full well the product was already being deprecated...

I haven't taken the NCIE SAN test (planning on it at Insight this year if I can) but I passed the NS0-511 last Fall. I'm taking the same approach for studying for the NCIE SAN that I did for the data protection test:

Review the content on the link Greg Hyman sent - take whatever free/CBT training you can

Take the practice exam and take notes on each of the technology concepts discussed in the questions. Then deep-dive into those concepts using the ONTAP 9 documentation center, reviewing KBs, etc.

Focus on areas I don't have direct experience with. In the NS0-511, I had no background on Metrocluster (my organization just doesn't use it) so I had to really get up to speed there. With the NS0-507 I'm going to have to study FC on NetApp (we only do NFS and iSCSI) - I've done FC with HP arrays in the past, but a lot of that material will be new to me.

Look at the ILT classes available - I've not taken many, but I will create a study guide out of the course outline (again, focusing on areas I'm weak on).

In the end, the tests have proven to be pretty "solid" insofar as not being tricky or having dumb/poisoned questions. The teams working on the test materials have done a great job. My only gripe with the NS0-511 was that it had a ton of questions on SnapProtect which I really didn't expect. I failed on my first take so I had to cram on that information - knowing full well the product was already being deprecated...

Re: NS0-507

I wanted to respond to one of Gerardo's previous questions above about publishing our exam passing scores.

While NetApp has not published the passing scores for any of our exams since I joined in 2015, I did not know why this was the case. Since I received Gerardo's question, I've been doing some research regarding this as well as making some updates. The updates went live today.

I'm happy to say that we now publish our passing score along with the number of items on each exam. This information can be found on each individual certification page on www.netapp.com/certification, specifically on the Exam tab.

My apologies in the delay to my response, but I wanted to ensure that the information was live on our webpage before responding.